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Classic ASP

Retrieve a Single Contact

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Demonstrates how to retrieve a single contact (by contactId) for the Google Contacts API.

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success = 0

' This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

' --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
' Note: The code for setting up the Chilkat REST object and making the initial connection can be done once.
' Once connected, the REST object may be re-used for many REST API calls.
' (It's a good idea to put the connection setup code in a separate function/subroutine.)
' --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

' It is assumed we previously obtained an OAuth2 access token.
' This example loads the JSON access token file 
' saved by this example: Get Google Contacts OAuth2 Access Token

set jsonToken = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
success = jsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/googleContacts.json")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Failed to load googleContacts.json") & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

set gAuth = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.AuthGoogle")
gAuth.AccessToken = jsonToken.StringOf("access_token")

set rest = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Rest")

' Connect using TLS.
bAutoReconnect = 1
success = rest.Connect("www.google.com",443,1,bAutoReconnect)

' Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access token)
success = rest.SetAuthGoogle(gAuth)

' ----------------------------------------------
' OK, the REST connection setup is completed..
' ----------------------------------------------

' To retrieve the contact, send the following:

' 	GET /m8/feeds/contacts/default/full/{contactId}
' 	GData-Version: 3.0

success = rest.AddHeader("GData-Version","3.0")

set sbPath = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = sbPath.Append("/m8/feeds/contacts/default/full/{contactId}")
' Get the contact having contactId = "7b1c7b6409e718a0"
numReplacements = sbPath.Replace("{contactId}","7b1c7b6409e718a0")

set sbResponseBody = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = rest.FullRequestNoBodySb("GET",sbPath.GetAsString(),sbResponseBody)
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' A successful response will have a status code equal to 200.
If (rest.ResponseStatusCode <> 200) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "response status code = " & rest.ResponseStatusCode) & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "response status text = " & rest.ResponseStatusText) & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "response header: " & rest.ResponseHeader) & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "response body: " & sbResponseBody.GetAsString()) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' If the 200 response was received, then the contacts XML is contained
' in the response body.
set xml = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Xml")
success = xml.LoadSb(sbResponseBody,0)

' See below for a sample response body.
success = xml.SaveXml("qa_output/google_contact.xml")

' Now let's parse the XML...
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "title: " & xml.GetChildContent("title")) & "</pre>"

emailAddress = xml.ChilkatPath("gd:email|(address)")
If (xml.LastMethodSuccess = 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "email address: " & emailAddress) & "</pre>"
End If

' The response body XML looks something like this:

' 	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
' 	<entry gd:etag="&quot;R3kzezVSLit7I2A9XRFaFE8DQAU.&quot;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:batch="http://schemas.google.com/gdata/batch" xmlns:gContact="http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005">
' 	    <id>http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/support%40chilkatcloud.com/base/7b1c7b6409e718a0</id>
' 	    <updated>2016-11-18T00:41:56.783Z</updated>
' 	    <app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2016-11-18T00:41:56.783Z</app:edited>
' 	    <category scheme="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind" term="http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008#contact" />
' 	    <title>Chilkat Cloud</title>
' 	    <link rel="http://schemas.google.com/contacts/2008/rel#photo" type="image/*" href="https://www.googleapis.com/m8/feeds/photos/media/support%40chilkatcloud.com/7b1c7b6409e718a0" gd:etag="&quot;fgVhPls4Sit7I2BWHUlTWkQMKHUZKHkkaiw.&quot;" />
' 	    <link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://www.googleapis.com/m8/feeds/contacts/support%40chilkatcloud.com/full/7b1c7b6409e718a0" />
' 	    <link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://www.googleapis.com/m8/feeds/contacts/support%40chilkatcloud.com/full/7b1c7b6409e718a0" />
' 	    <gd:name>
' 	        <gd:fullName>Chilkat Cloud</gd:fullName>
' 	        <gd:givenName>Chilkat</gd:givenName>
' 	        <gd:familyName>Cloud</gd:familyName>
' 	    </gd:name>
' 	    <gd:email rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#other" address="support@chilkatcloud.com" primary="true" />
' 	    <gContact:groupMembershipInfo deleted="false" href="http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/groups/support%40chilkatcloud.com/base/6" />
' 	</entry>

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